LIST AND LEARN
INTRO
The curtains open, to reveal Fiametta, Vittoria and Giulia binding posies of roses.
Caroline, Debbie and Jane enter USL. Get flowers from Tina.
Nikki and Sarah F enter DSR. Get flowers from Sarah B.
Cathie, Suzanne and Catherine enter USR. Get flowers from Jackie.
Kim, Kate, Eleanor enter DSL. Get flowers from Tina.
Once you are on stage with your flowers, start arranging them into a bouquet.
List and learn,
Hold flowers. On pause – smell roses
List and learn,
Hold flowers up to chest
List and learn, ye dainty roses,
Step ball change right, step ball change left
Roses white
SL turn in to centre
And roses red,
SR turn in to centre
Why we bind you into posies
Facing centre, step ball change US, step ball change DS
Ere your morning bloom has fled
Step behind, side, front to turn back to the front
By a law of maiden's making,
Accents of a heart that's aching,
Step together (x4) to cluster in middle
Even though that heart be breaking,
Throw hands away to the left
Should by maiden be unsaid:
Bring flowers up to left of face to whisper
INSTRUMENTAL
Skip back to your original place
Though they love with love exceeding,
Bring your roses to your chest
They must seem to be unheeding —
To each other
Go ye then and do their pleading,
Extend arms forward
INSTRUMENTAL
Step outside, tap forwards
Step inside, tap forwards
Roses white and roses red!
Tap your bouquet gently to the left then the right
List and learn,
Hold bouquet up to your chest
List and learn, ye dainty roses,
Roses white and roses red,
Why we bind you into posies
Ere your morning bloom has fled.
(As before)
List and learn, list and learn,
Bouquet goes out to the front and then back to your chest
Roses white and roses red,
Tap your bouquet gently to the left then the right
Roses,
Holding bouquet in your right hand, sweep it round at chest height from left to right
Oh list, list and learn,
Bouquet still in right hand, back to chest.
Left hand comes to bouquet too
List and learn,
Hands extend forwards
Oh, roses white and red!
Bouquets back to chest
INSTRUMENTAL
Step to the outside, tap to the front
Step to the inside, tap to the front
Three step turn towards the outside (except Jackie)
Two there are for whom in duty,
Every maid in Venice sighs —
Two so peerless in their beauty
That they shame the summer skies
Other four groups sit down and get start binding their bouquets.
All sigh.
Tina to back of stage to retrieve more flowers.
We have hearts for them, in plenty,
To Sarah
They have hearts, but all too few,
To Tina
We, alas, are four-and-twenty!
They, alas, are only two!
We, alas!
Alas!
Are four-and-twenty,
SR groups left hand to face and lean in
They, alas!
Alas
Are only two.
SL groups right hand to face and lean in
They, alas, are only two, alas!
Stand back up, despairingly
Now ye know, ye dainty roses,
Roses white and roses red,
Why we bind you into posies,
Ere your morning bloom has fled,
As before
Now ye know,
Bouquets out to front
now ye know,
Bouquets to chest
Roses whiteand roses red!
Tap your bouquet gently to the left then the right
Roses,
Bouquets in right hand sweep left to right at chest height
Oh now,
Bouquets to chest in right hand
now ye know,
Left hand comes to bouquet too
Now ye know,
Hands extend forwards
Oh, roses white and red.
Bouquets back to chest
INSTRUMENTAL
Step to the outside, tap to the front
Step to the inside, tap to the front
Three step turn towards the outside